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CORA: employer check

CORA (Braine-l'Alleud) averaged 1,281 full-time equivalents in fiscal year 2025. Is the workforce growing, do people stay, and how does the employer compare with its sector?

CORA
BE 0402.537.726Braine-l'AlleudNACE 47.110, Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
Social balance 2021 · full schemaOther company
Staff
1,859.9 FTE
2,395 people on 31-12-2021-22% on 2024
Turnover
125%
3,464 joined, 3,445 left
Staff cost per FTE
€51,200
fiscal year 2025 · cost to the employer, not a salary
Training
20.6 hours per FTE
38,340 hours in total · €1,381,300

Staff cost per FTE over the years

euro per full-time equivalent

From 2020 to 2025 the staff cost per FTE rose by 11%.

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Staff over the years

average FTE

From 2019 to 2025 staff fell by 32%.

Entries and exits

joinedleft

Why people left in 2021

  • Retirement20
  • Dismissal by the employer11
  • Other reason (end of a temporary contract, resignation)3,414

More leavers than average staff: that points to many short contracts, such as seasonal or holiday work.

Make-up on 31-12-2021

2,395 people
Full-time and part-time
full-time 836 (35%)part-time 1,559 (65%)
Men and women
men 1,033 (43%)women 1,362 (57%)
Type of contract
permanent 2,113 (88%)fixed-term 282 (12%)
Job category
white-collar 2,367 (99%)blue-collar 9 (0%)management 7 (0%)other 12 (1%)

Training in 2021

ParticipantsHoursCost
Formal 1,374 8,009 €966,400
Less formal 1,744 5,738 €307,400
Initial 56 24,593 €107,600

Training cost is 1.6% of personnel cost.

Agency workers in 2021

On average at work
119.6
Hours worked
217,853
Cost to the company
€4,969,500

Agency workers and people placed at the company's disposal by another business; they are not on its own payroll register.

Every figure per fiscal year

as filed
2021
Average staff (FTE)1,859.9
Full-time / part-time (average)855.4 / 1,467.9
People at the closing date2,395
Hours worked2,247,525
Personnel cost€86,054,400
Joined (people)3,464
Left (people)3,445
Exit rate125%
Training hours38,340
Agency workers (average)119.6

Employer stability

  • Status Active; no open bankruptcy or judicial reorganisation.
  • Financial health No Checked score: too few or too old figures.
  • Filing of accounts Accounts for 2025 filed 35 days after the deadline.
  • Staff Average staff fell by 22% on 2024. A transfer of staff to another company, for instance within a group, looks the same.
  • In business since 16-09-1921 (105 years)

How to read these figures

  • Source: the social balance in the annual accounts the company filed with the National Bank of Belgium. It covers its own staff, not that of its subsidiaries.
  • Personnel cost is the employer's total cost (gross pay, employer contributions, insurance and other benefits), not an employee's pay.
  • The staff costs of the annual accounts (item 62) divided by the average staff in full-time equivalents of the same fiscal year: what one full-time employee costs the employer, social contributions included. Neither a gross nor a net salary. Under 10 FTE an average approaches one person's pay; we do not show that figure.
  • The sector is the NACE division of the main activity. Percentages are compared with employers of at least 5 FTE; the middle half runs from the first to the third quartile.
  • Exits are the number of leavers in full-time equivalents against average staff. Students, flexi-jobs and seasonal work are included and can make the percentage high.